skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's absolutely a fluff piece. Think about it. The title brags about how awesome the business is for the riders. Did they speak to a single rider? Nope.

That's because every single rider would rather that instead of being given 25 cent foot warmers, a few-cents cup of coffee, a couple cents of electricity, and a place to piss: be paid a livable wage, be paid for their time (there are a number of circumstances where the app delivery companies will leave the delivery person with nothing, even though they did work), get paid time off, worker's comp if they're injured while working, protection from discrimination, wage law protections, and all the other myriad of things that these companies can't afford because their business model doesn't work if you pay people working for you a fair, livable wage.

It seems like every other SV company works this way. Amazon is of course the shining example, where they've outsourced almost all of their warehouse labor to third party companies, and those companies purposefully try to burn out / annoy the employees so they don't stick around long enough to claim the benefits Amazon brags about on their hiring pages. The drivers? Employed by "DSPs", most of which are very short-lived. Again, on purpose/by design. Can't get sued for workers comp if you're employing people through a third party company that (oops!) dissolved 6 months ago.

Google Books gave the Books employees very visibly different IDs and they were third-class citizens on campus, not even allowed to leave the area around the Books warehouse, if I remember right? Google won't even pay their shuttle drivers enough; there was an article a while back where the reporter interviewed a shuttle driver who was having to live in a camper van in the Google parking lot because she couldn't afford any housing anywhere near a reasonable drive from the Google office. I knew a massage therapist who worked at a Google office and she snorted when I asked her if she got all the fancy benefits management, engineering, and marketing get.

FFS the article brags about how "prudent" they are for their labor cost-cutting; overseas outsourcing a lot of their labor, for example. I bet damn near every non-management position is part-time so they get out of paying any benefits.

This stuff is being done to deflect criticism when labor rights activists go to city hall or Albany. Grubhub et al hire lobbyist who throws some cash at legislators to get meetings with them, strolls in, shows them a nice presentation with all these pictures of smiling riders, and the legislator thinks "gosh golly they're treating these people so nicely." Ditto for public committee hearings.

The delivery riders and drivers don't have the ability to trek up to Albany and even if they did, there's no way in hell a legislator would make time to meet them.
How long did the log4j exist?

https://www.csoonline.com/article/571797/the-apache-log4j-vu...

What was the other package that had the mysterious .?
The issue is that you can't repair these bikes because they all have proprietary parts that only licensed mechanics are allowed to touch. And the ebike companies are dropping like flies at the moment.
The Chart of Everything
It looks like a trolley problem to me sadly. If that wall wasn't there, the plane would have kept skidding (from the looks of that picture) downhill into traffic for who knows how long. Planes have a lot of inertia. And those look like power lines just past that wall too; those would not help the situation either.
I think I see where I got tripped up. Essentially, they're saying all batteries in portable electronics will be portable by 2027 and defined as so-and-so; not that batteries today are portable and will be made compliant as defined so-and-so.

Because I think we can all agree: The battery on an ICOM walkie-talkie is portable, the battery in an Apple iPhone is not portable.
That's great!!

My brother is a writer that's been struggling with his own personal projects (a novel he hasn't touched in years). He JUST got a Freewrite for Xmas and was already caught writing again.

I hope it sticks for you both.
As a go programmer, "; or return" makes a lot of sense to me
> So why should I keep doing what I'm doing when it's getting me nowhere? Why shouldn't I switch to an automated "shotgun" approach that applies me to as many jobs as possible to which I vaguely fit the requirements?

I’m in a big semi-private Slack where people have been discussing CS application strategies for a long time (since before ChatGPT).

The desperate people usually go through an arc where they try automated applications and embracing LLMs. Their response rate is dismal, but they make up for it with shotgun volume.

The catch is that when they finally get a job, it’s usually at a company that sucks. Some place with incompetent hiring managers who can’t tell the difference between LLM slop and a genuine application. Interview processes that leave so much room for LLM cheating that all of your coworkers are going to be LLM jockeys too.

So you can try it. You might get something out of it, which is better than nothing. However, if you’re expecting a good job at a good company then it’s not going to deliver what you expect.
The amount of harassment and hate being propagated by the media certainly didn't help. I would also find The New York Times to be liable for all the AI doomerism they propagate.
You have a sovereign citizen vibe to your whole wall of text style of "ask" post.

Very odd.
Okay so people keep calling these "fake applicants" but the new reality is that for a good number of our roles realistically any old person person with good communication skills and some basic critical thinking skills will be able to functionally replace us given a some good AI tools. It will continue to look like these are "fake applicants" until you accept the new reality, which is that quite soon this whole thing will be smoothed over into a normalized surplus of "programmers".

This is just the beginning and it shouldn't really be a shock to anyone who's been watching this unfold over the last five years.

That said, we really don't need to rip each other up over this. This latest golden era of good old fashioned programming is winding down. Look ahead to what's coming next! What are the challenges we will face now?

Get creative and stay open minded about what you're capable of and willing to do. Be proactive and use your imagination with all this new stuff. Don't take real relationships for granted, cultivate them. Don't isolate yourself!
If the SSD reacts to the start of a brown-out with supply voltage dropping way below spec as a signal that an unplanned power loss is happening, then it may do an emergency flush and shutdown that leaves it simply waiting for power to finish dropping to zero. It makes at least some sense for the drive to not try to wake up from that state without a clean power cycle.
I meant a startup that provides onsite screening / verification of candidates for companies. Only pre-verifed candidates can apply to company jobs. If the candidate is not local, the company can use the test center to do a remote screen in an environment where candidate cannot cheat. Etc.

I just brought up certs because back in the day you could not take those test online due to cheating.

Now in the age of AI you can't do any type of testing remote, imo.
While I doubt OpenAI is responsible for wrongdoing. OpenAI's strategic importance to AI development warrants an FBI investigation as a standard procedure.

The whistleblower may have been approached by foreign governments seeking classified information, but declined to share it. There are many potential scenarios to consider, beyond the obvious.
There isn’t one. There is a dip, and then a marshy area, and then there is a soil berm that supports the runway lighting system which is at the same height as the runway surface.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1108904845802471515...

I’d like to know if his runway had an EMAS system, and if EMAS is effective against an aircraft without the landing gear down. In satellite photos, both ends of the runway are marked with yellow chevrons, which indicates that the surface is not supposed to be taxiied on, and it has a blocky/pixelated coloring which is typical of EMAS but I cant find an airport facility directory that covers MXW.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineered_materials_arrestor_...
I used to run my own mail server until dealing with spam became unmanageable, even with spam mitigation tools in place.

Maybe spamd is sufficient, but I ended up switching to gmail which was initially great but has dropped off in efficacy over the years.

I also understand sending email can be difficult with strict SPF rules in place causing many email providers to reject legitimate emails from smaller email servers.
Don’t forget to factor in all the additional time getting to the airport and dealing with check in and security.
It's definitely better out of the box, with no configuration. If you add a bunch of fancy plugins to zsh then they can be very similar
How middlemen are gaming the H-1B program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41123945 - Jul 2024 (57 comments)
> I have 10+ years of professional software dev experience so I've mostly been looking at senior dev positions.

Is the job market just as bad for juniors, people looking to enter the field right now?
> have to learn the locals too avoid in each one I live. The number of times that I'm treated well but that I'm somehow unique in my imagined racial group is unusually high.

What do you mean by this? Are you treated well or not?
That must have been such a satisfying fix for the engineers though!
> This was very clearly an "ask for forgiveness because the data we want is absolutely priceless and we'll get lots of it by the time people notice / word gets out.

It's very clearly not, since they've gone to huge lengths to make sure they can't actually see the data themselves see the grandparent post.
The ESP8266 (the predecessor to the ESP32) was initially sold as a wifi IC, using an AT protocol over UART to communicate with the host MCU. Then some people discovered how to use it directly as an MCU, and the documentation and SDK slowly started being made available.

As for why? Regulatory (FCC) compliance is probably a part of it, I think the ealy ESP chips were dubious in this regard. Licensing might be a factor as well (a lot of wifi chips use ARM cores; Espressif doesn't, though not sure how much of a factor this is). Support comes into it too - established wifi vendors provide support and help you with RF designs; Espressif has forums (maybe larger customers get proper support now?)
It would be nice to have a reasonable discussion about what we collectively choose to spend money on, but grouping together zany examples distracts from the relative scale of each.

$32K for "breakdancing" v. $90 billion (2,812,500x bigger) for "Ineffective Navy vessels".
Baseband firmware and OS activation have nothing to do with the carrier, just like it didn't on RIM devices back in the day (which is probably the only somewhat comparable version of this).

Perhaps you are thinking about subscription activation (be it GSM or CDMA) and parameters for cell networks (which can indeed be consumed by the baseband, which will be running firmware supplied by the manufacturer, sometimes re-packaged in system images as done in OEM feature phones and many android phones).

Either way, macOS devices do the same thing (activation) as do iPads without cell networking. Same goes for radio firmware loading and updates. You'll find most wintel laptops doing the same for things like WiFi (regardless of softmac/halfmac/hardmac chips).
I don’t think anyone was suggesting otherwise.
Absolutely incredible. Refurbished organs seem like a no brainer.
It's not "all" audiobooks but there's a massive collection available with your subscription. Definitely worth it in my opinion.
Lack of clairvoyance? Missing out on mobile was more obvious tho.
Operational Responsibility
What would be the value to the user in your scenario? In the photos app real scenario, it’s to enable a search feature that requires pairing photos with data not on the phone. (I understand you’re being sarcastic.)
> There is also no guarantee that Apple isn't lying about everything.

And at that point all the opt-in dialogs in the world don't matter and you should not be running iOS but building some custom Android ROM from scratch.
heh I have the same car. was thinking of doing the same.. but like mentioned earlier I want that valet setting feature and stuff. tough choice.
My initial feeling is: that data is probably mostly unmined and lost. Lucky bastards!
BFV has been proven to be irreversible, and Apple open sourced their Swift library implementing it, so it's not totally unproven.

https://github.com/apple/swift-homomorphic-encryption
> if your code is already correct, you don’t need the unit test

This is a hot take. I'm 100% not onboard with.
Maybe we can do some analysis and optimize phone battery life based on your cohorts usage patterns.

I don't know, I'm sure we'll figure something out once we have your data!
They might not be legally entitled to it, but that's just because of our shitty "intellectual property" laws. Morally speaking, OP is absolutely entitled to have a device that they own not spying on them.
All I see on Google for most searches is ads and SEO spam that gets the ranking and clicks. It’s only once I spend time scrolling it that I realize it has the telltale signs like very lengthy text that doesn’t answer the title succinctly.
People like the organizer.
I was curious so I went and looked at what other airports do, yyz, jfk, icn, lhr are all chainlink, some areas of yyz if you over-ran and went through he chainlink, it looks like surely you'd be on a road considerably bigger than the one at Muan.
is your electricity free? Some of these cards probably cost about $0.10/hr to run ... depending on your card/electricity rate etc.

It's probably somewhere between 12months-never depending on how the market shakes out. Maybe 2 years is a good idea ... really, if power is cheap/free and the machine is on and idle then it's free money - that's the way to look at it.
The devil is in the differential privacy budget. I am in Japan and I’ve taken hundreds of photos this week. What does that budget cover?
You can choose to do so, or not do so.
You aren't wrong, but... it's odd coming here to HN and seeing people talk about privacy like we aren't in the nth generation of people trading theirs away for a pittance. I think the market for the sort of privacy envisioned by some here is incredibly small, incredibly niche, and honestly one of the least likely to buy an iPhone in the first place.

Most people broadcast their lives on social media, happily opt in to all sorts of schemes that track them just for minor conveniences. For people like that, the idea that the privacy protection outlined by the OP isn't enough rings really hollow.

Or to put it bluntly, at some point this really stops feeling like a practical debate, and more of an ideological one.
If you have the capability to actually skillfully analyze this type of crypto, disassembling the binaries from your device (or at the very least, an ipsw for your device) should be trivial.

After all, you wouldn’t actually be trusting the source code given to you to match what’s running on your device, would you?
The Samsung Galaxy S5 was IP67, with a fully toolless, user-replaceable battery (not to mention SIM card!).

That was back in 2014.
This presupposes both an interest in religion and organized sports.
Would love to get Google and all the big companies' fingers out of my life, but spam is overwhelming today.

Would love to see a robust tutorial to show us how to really do spam protection right.
Doesn’t this weird question presuppose that you live somewhere with literally no friends?

In what situation would you live somewhere long-term with no friends whatsoever?
The entire point is that you don't actually have the data, only the client can decrypt any of it.
Ukraine is one of our selective conflicts, partially responded to in order to continue deterring China from invading China

Do you even realize that there are many other conflicts that also involve American values that we aren’t involved in?

Its hard to tell. Its a very selective morality as I already mentioned.

Regarding conflicts you care about subsidizing, there are 185 other countries that could as well. Go ask them and see how absurd it sounds, because the same standard actually applies to the US, you just aren't willing to see that.

And yes, the China situation is a mockery of the nation state concept and is hilarious to me and many others. What is happening in the east should be ignored until a nation state concept emerges that we can relate to.

Let me rephrase: thats whats going to happen after the semiconductor situation is hedged. Everyone knows it, TSMC knows it. Thats why TSMC drags its feet with many excuses about talent because they need to delay as well, for the current personnel’s entire lifespan to be honest.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rubric
I'm interested in knowing how they achieve requirements traceability to code and the requisite level of code coverage (certain SILs require MC/DC coverage, which usually requires expensive tooling). Also which hazards they identified and their mitigations.
In this video of the plane going along the runway, it just seems to me it's going very fast well into a no-gear landing. Like they didn't set it down for more than half the runway (and the runway was 9200 feet)

https://x.com/BNONews/status/1873174704720425440

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muan_International_Airport

The thrust reversers are open though? (maybe?)
I tried it out twice now but it doesn't support multiple frames. So it's a terminal only sorta thing? Or maybe Wayland? Whatever, it doesn't support multiple decade proven workflows. Totally ok, but not superior.
Shockingly common in civilian aviation, it’s actually one of the most common causes for accidents. Not sure about commercial but it was not uncommon in the military in the 50s.
I half-way suspected that's what you were going for (testing-as-a-service) but my point still stands: it is a web-of-trust bootstrapping problem. For example, Otherbranch[1] exists, is a startup, and is trying to handle pre-screening candidates, but they seem to have very few companies that are currently using them. One would assume if they were solving a real problem then companies would be beating down their door to get real, verified, actual people and yet.

1: see https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=otherbranch.com - the folks spun out of Triplebyte
AI bot?
This is a different situation but bears some similarities: in many states, moderates and conservatives have tried to stop the increasing politicization of school instruction, usually with a left bias. In a few red states it’s the other way. But in many states, politically biased instruction gets packaged under labels like “social and emotional learning” (SEL) and the curriculum / materials come from random mostly unknown companies that are part of the grift that accompanies this activism. Parents and news organizations are often surprised when the school district or state refuses to answer questions and denies requests for transparency. It is usually made with claims of copyright protections preventing sharing of the materials that guide classroom instruction. Meanwhile, students lose time to ineffective instruction, fall behind in the global talent race, and some grifters get rich. The only way past those barriers to transparency, is a lawsuit.
I thought the response from intel was to invest a lot in correctness for a while and then deciding that AMD were not being punished for their higher defect rate and so, more recently, investing in other things to try to compete with AMD on other metrics than how buggy the cpu is.
No, it is not. And their budget is similar per citizen to most major cities [1], so implying that somehow they should spend money on every whim isn’t justified.

[1] https://www.vera.org/publications/what-policing-costs-in-ame...
What's the point of this rule?
LLM code gen, presumably

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15247
Let me put it in another way; it's similar to the US banks during 2008, when they appeared to be healthy, holding lots of subprime loans on their books.

If we are talking about China's credit, China has a lot of subprime loans to belt and road countries that have very little income, and lot of subprime loans to their citizens, which recently a scholar reported that 900M of them make less than $400/month.
> Why in the world am I supposed to be an expert on homomorphic encryption? How many people in the world are experts on homomorphic encryption?

No one, at any point, implied you had to be an expert on homomorphic encryption. But if you're going to evaluate the security risk of a feature, and then end up on the front page of HN for said security risk, I think it's fair to criticize your lack of objectivity (or attempt at objectivity) by way of not even trying to understand the technical details of the blog.

I will say I think my word choice was unnecessarily harsh, I'm sorry. I think I meant more indifference/inattention.

> What does that even mean in this context?

Apple's list of Security releases is long and storied. By comparison, the Solana Saga Web3 phone's list of security releases is short and succinct. Therefore, the Solana Saga must be more secure and has better security than an Apple device!

> What is the value of the feature? As the article notes, this new feature is flying so low under the radar that Apple hasn't bothered to advertise it, and the Apple media haven't bothered to mention it either. You have to wonder how many people even wanted it.

The marketability of a feature is not necessarily correlated with its value. Some features are simply expected and would be silly to advertise, i.e. the ability to check email or text friends. Other features are difficult to evaluate efficacy, so you release and collect feedback instead of advertising and setting false expectations.

> Lockdown mode is basically for famous people and nobody else.

Similar to Feature value, that audience of that statement is your average person (read: does not read/post on hacker news). Based off the your pedigree, I feel as though you probably know better, and given your "no tolerance for risk" for such a feature, it's something worth at least considering, and definitely isn't ridiculous.

I think it's great you started this conversation. I disagree with your opinion, and that's okay!! But I don't think it's particularly beneficial to any discourse to
1. Imply that you are evaluating security risk
2. Be given a well written technical article so that you are able to make an informed decision (and then share that informed decision)
3. Ignore relevant information from said article, make an uninformed decision
4. Be surprised when someone says you made an uninformed decision
5. Imply the only way to make an informed decision would be to be an expert in the relevant fields from the technical article

Anyway - thanks for writing and replying. Creating and putting yourself out there is hard (as evidenced by my empty blog that I promised I'd add to for the past 2 years). And my criticism was too harsh.